I saw Rose Gainsborough’s work on Poolga yes­ter­day, a site where you can down­load artist iPhone, iPad, and iPhone4 back­grounds. It’s my go-to when­ever I want to change up the images on my phone or iPad. Any­ways, I now have this as my phone background: Rosie is an illus­tra­tor whose draw­ings are of objects, peo­ple, ...

I saw Vio­let Lopiz via Mallory’s Pin­ter­est last week and went crazy for her work. I love the glaz­ing effect that Vio­let has achieved with the cover of Les Poing Sur Les Iles and sub­se­quent illus­tra­tions. It feels like we’re look­ing at sheets of velum-not a book cover– with the rich­ness and soft­ness of the ...

Perus­ing the MICA Art Mar­ket yes­ter­day (which I would whole­heart­edly rec­om­mend if you are in the area. I’m actu­ally sell­ing at it!), I came across this face, drawn by Paige Vick­ers: A big haunt­ing, yes, but very intrigu­ing. I went to her blog (which is reg­u­larly updated!) and found her illus­tra­tion, book arts, and hand ...

Pawel Mild­ner is an illus­tra­tor and graphic designer liv­ing and work­ing in Wro­claw, Poland. He is, “Inspired by the flavour of non-digital mid-century clas­sic design and the inter­na­tional graf­fiti scene” (via him). Pawel’s work feels youth­ful (espe­cially the fox in the car — reminds me of Richard Scarry), but a bit less cheery (espe­cially Mar­tina ...

So ya’ll know I am in grad school? It’s finals time, and I’ve had to cut back posts to one a day to deal with the large ends that need to be tied. Mov­ing on, though! This past semes­ter in MICA’s Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice pro­gram, the Advanced Pub­lish­ing Work­shop with Jaime Zol­lars came together to cre­ate Bal­moral ...

I am sort of sur­prised that I haven’t fea­tured the work on Geran Knol on Brown Paper Bag before. Styl­is­ti­cally, his work is right up my alley — hand crafted, abstracted with a bit of folk influ­ence. I am espe­cially a fan of Geran’s col­lages — I love the mix­ture of tex­tures and sub­tlies among ...

Nick White, an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in the UK, has a great web­site. Easy to use, it has a lot of sub­tle touches that seem to speak to his work — influ­enced and patched together by a num­ber of styles and tech­niques. On his website: Nick com­bines found imagery with draw­ing & paint­ing to cre­ate myr­iad ...

I know tweeted about this yes­ter­day, but I wanted to share it on here because I think Lizzy Stewart’s online drawn diary is so won­der­ful. I have writ­ten about her work before, most recently Toska. And, if I am not mis­taken, Lizzy has recently gone back to school for her grad­u­ate degree, so maybe that ...

I walked through the MICA Juried Under­grad­u­ate Exhi­bi­tion, and I noticed this work by illus­tra­tor Jee-Shaun Wang right off the bat: Jee-Shaun doesn’t have a web­site, and much his blog is com­prised of sketches and in progress works. From here, you can see a wide range of influ­ences, includ­ing a recent trip to Tai­wan, Ansel Adams, ...

Nowa­days, I spend a lot of time with my Instant Net­flix. Lately, I’ve been opt­ing to watch doc­u­men­taries and movies about ser­ial killers and crim­i­nals (but only dur­ing the day! It would nor­mally give me night­mares!). Need­less to say when I saw that Sean Lewis’s illus­tra­tions for his Spring 2011 the­sis show was about crim­i­nals ...